News published on Federal Newswire in November 2019

News from November 2019


News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Billy J. Williams, U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, announced today that Lorenzo Laron Jones, 46, a Portland resident and senior member of the Hoover Criminal Gang, has been indicted for his role in a racketeering conspiracy that caused the shooting deaths of two Portland men.


News Release: Eliminate, Neutralize, and Disrupt Wildlife Trafficking Act of 2016.


BLM New Mexico quarterly oil and gas lease sale nets $18,394,059

News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. -The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) New Mexico raised $18,394,059 in its quarterly oil and gas lease sale held November 7, 2019. Nearly 50 percent of the revenue from the sale will go to the states where the oil and gas activity occurs-in this case New Mexico and Oklahoma-while the rest will go to the U.S. Treasury.


News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted a Chicago man of robbing an ATM technician at gunpoint in the city’s Little Village neighborhood.


News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Missouri, man who was arrested after crashing his car in a high-speed chase pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing firearms.


Jury Convicts Lebanon CPA of $7 Million Wire Fraud, Money Laundering Scheme

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A certified public accountant in Lebanon, Missouri, was convicted by a federal jury today of a $7 million scheme to defraud his employer and clients.


News Release: Justice Department Awards $95 Million to Improve Public Safety in the State of Tennessee.


Monroe Couple Sentenced to 69 Years Collectively in Prison for Armed Robbery Bank Spree

News Release: MONROE, La. - A Monroe couple was sentenced to 69 years collectively in prison for robbing three financial institutions at gunpoint and for multiple firearms violations, announced United States Attorney David C. Joseph.


South Dakota residents will need REAL ID-compliant driver license, identification card or other acceptable form of identification to fly starting October 2020

Release: SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) today reminded South Dakota residents that starting Oct. 1, 2020, all travelers will need a REAL ID-compliant driver license, identification card or another acceptable form of identification to board a commercial flight.


News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - A peer-reviewed report summarizing the results of Yellowstone’s 2018 Visitor Use Study is available online today. The National Park Service contracted Otak Inc., RRC Associates, and The University of Montana Institute for Tourism Recreation Research to conduct the study to help...


Buffalo Man Indicted On Multiple Cocaine Charges

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Kasan Alkafi, 39, of Buffalo, NY, with conspiracy to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine, maintaining a drug-involved premises, and possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.


TSA provides local Thanksgiving travel outlook for Sioux Falls Regional Airport

Release: SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced Thursday that it is prepared for an increase in travelers departing Sioux Falls Regional Airport (FSD) in the days leading up to and immediately following the Thanksgiving holiday.


Tallahassee Woman Convicted of Armed Drug Trafficking

News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Mary E. Forehand, 40, of Tallahassee, Florida, has been sentenced to serve 15 years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. The sentence was announced by Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.


News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to being a felon in possession of a firearm.


News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Donald Benson, 30, of Columbia, was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.


News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Geudin Nivar Baez, a/k/a/ Jhonatan Mateo, 31, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced yesterday to 52 months in federal prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl.


Johnson, Grassley Call for State Department to Release Documents on Hunter Biden and Burisma

News Release: Dear Secretary Pompeo: In April 2014, Vice President Biden reportedly became the “public face of the administration’s handling of Ukraine."[1] Around the same time, the Vice President’s son, Hunter Biden, and his business associate, Devon Archer, both began serving on the board of Burisma Holdings,...


News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that Fagron Holding USA LLC (Fagron) has agreed to pay $22.05 million to resolve allegations concerning the establishment of false and inflated Average Wholesale Prices (AWPs) by its wholly owned subsidiary Freedom Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Freedom)...


News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MAHDI HENDERSON, 25, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possesses a loaded handgun.


News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Bath County woman, Della Mae Barnett, 62, was sentenced in federal court Thursday, to 12 months in prison, for committing Social Security fraud.